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to be distinctly a lake fish ; so I shall not treat of it 

 herSj but take it under the head of Lakes. 



The greyling needs little description. It is a very- 

 well known fish, abounding in many of otir rivers 

 and streams. As an edible fish, it certainly comes 

 next to trout, and even contests the palm with it 

 when in good season in the months of October and 

 November. Where the rivers are small, it would be 

 advisable, if it is to live with trout, to establish a 

 breeding apparatus to keep up the trout stock, the 

 expense of this being but small; for although the 

 greyling is a very handsome addition to a trout 

 stream, and finds fly-fishing for the angler at that 

 period of the year when the trout does not, it is a 

 great ground-feeder. Its habit, .at times, is to grub, 

 or rout like a pig in the gravel and sand ; and 

 hence, as they are in the best condition when trout 

 are spawning, they are apt to destroy the spawn and 

 to greatly reduce the supply of that valuable fish, 

 I am compelled to own that I believe they do a 

 good deal of mischief, and there is often a strong, 

 and not unfounded, prejudice against them. They 

 might possibly be made, in many of our mixed, 

 rivers, to take the place of worse fish, such as 

 barbel, &c. They are, however, being somewhat 

 widely spread about over the country, owing to the 



